Yearning Quotes

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

And thou who thinkest to seek for me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not, unless thou know this mystery: that if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee

Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.

To die of yearning for something you will never experience

The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.

We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning.

What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union.

Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.

I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.

If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.

prayer is nothing more than thought. It is a yearning of the heart.

[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.

Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

When the yearning for living ends, there can be no more birth.

Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it.

We are the yearning creatures of this planet.

You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live.

There is most certainly a purpose you are yearning to fulfill. Find it, know it, follow it, and you can change the world.

I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.

Marriage is sought and kept alive by a deep yearning to know another and be known by another.

Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.

The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present.

I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.

So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.

When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life's morning.

One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.

Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.

Creativity is a yearning for immortality

[There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.

We are the total of our longings.

Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.

Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?

Why don't we follow our yearning?

I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love.

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me

There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.

Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as it first formed for me.

There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.

I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.

I was a very focused and determined woman and I always got what I wanted. But once I had it, there was another future moment when I had to attain something else. These internal yearnings keep happiness in a future moment.